The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-15

night and says, angrily: "Nhere is George
In many q household there is such one sin
gled out for suspicion aud castieatiOn. All tie
sweet flowers Of his soul blasted under this
perpetual northeast storm, he curses the day
in which he WAS born. Safer tho child in an ark
OF bulrushcs on the nile, among crocodiles, than
10 an elegant mansion amid such domestic
e0reons. mother was passing along the
street one day, and came up TO her little child,
who did not sce her approach. and her child
was saying to her playmate: lou go0d-i4r-
nothing ittlc scamp, you come right into the
house this minute or / will beat You till the
skin comes OFF, The mother broke il eEY-
ing, "NhY. Lizzie, ! am surprised to hear you
talk ike thal to any one!" "Oh," said the
child - was only playing, and he Is my little
boy, and ana scolding him as you did me this
morning Children are apt to lie echoes OF
their parents
Safer in "A Bethlehem Manager, among cattle
and Caiuels, with gentle Mary to watch the
little innocent, than the most extravagaut nur-
sery over which Gods star Of peace never
stood. The trappcr eXtingushes the flames on
the prairie 10y lighting fire with fire, but you
cannot, with the fire of your own disposition,
put out tho fire Of a child's disposition.
Yet we may rush to the other extreme and
rule children by too great leniency. The sur
geon is not unknd, because Notwithstanding
The resistance Of his patient he goes straight
on, with firm hand and unfaltering heart, to
take off the gangrcne, Nor is the pa
rent less afectionate and faithful
because, Notwithstanding all violent remon-
strances on the part of the child, lac with the
iirmcst discipline advances to the cutting off
Of its evil inClinatons. The Bible SAYS: "Chasl
ten thy son while there is hope, and let not
thy soul spare for his crying" Childish rage
unchecked will, after a while, become hurri-
cane Childish petulance will grow up into
misanthropy. Childish rebellion will develop
into the lawlcssness of riot and sedition. II you
would ruin the child dance to his every
caprice and stuff him with confectionery. Be-
fore you are aware of il that boy OF six years
viii 90 down the street, q cigar III his mouth
and ready on any corner with his comrades to
compare pugilstc attachments. The parent
who allows the child to grow mp without ever
having learned the great duty of obedience
and submission has prepared cup of burning
gall for his own lips and appalling destruction
for his descendant Remember Eli and his
two sons, Uophni and Phinehas.
seeon error prevalent to the training of
children is a laying out of n theory and follow
ing il without arranging it to varieties of dis
position. In every family you will find strik-
ing differences of temperament. This child
is too tinld, and that too bold, and this too
misery, and that too wasteful this too mac
tive, and that too bosterous Now, the far
ner who should plant corn and wheat and
turnips in just the same way, then put them
through one hopper, and grind them in the
same mill, would not be 50 much
of a fool as the parents
who should attempt to discipline and
educate al their children in the same manner.
1t needs q skilliul hand to adjust these checks
and balances. The rigidity OF government
which is necessary TO hold in this impetuous
nature would utterly crush that flexible dispo-
sition while the gentle reproof that would
suffice for the latter, would, whom used on the
former be like attempting to hold n champing
BucephaluS with reins of gossamer. God
gives us in the disposition of each child hint
as to how we ought to train him, and, as God
N q m ~ pf 81, iOdi
Gates what mode of training is
the best, He also indicates in
the disposition their future occupation. Do
not write down that child as dull because it
may not now be rs brilliant as your other chill
drcn or as those of your neghhor Some of
the migltiost men and women of the centuries
had a stupid childhood Thomas AQunas was
called at school 1.-THE dumb OK +" but afterwards
demonstrated his sanctihed genius and was
called "the angel of the schools and "the
eagle of Brittany" Kindness and patience
with Il child viii conquer almost anything,
and they are virtues so Christianlike that they
arc inspiring to look at. John Wesleys kiss
of a child on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias
Joyce from proiligate into flaming evangel.
The thiFd error prevalent in the training of
children is the onesided development of either
tho physical, intellectual or moral nature at
the expense of the others. Those, for in
stance, greatly mistake who, while they arc
faithful in the intellectual and moral culture
of children, forget the physical. The bright
eyes half quenChcd by light study, the Cramned
chest that comes from too much bending over
school desks, the weak side resulting from sed-
cntariuess of habit, pale cheeks and the gaunt
bodies OF multitudos OF children attest that
physical development does not always 20 along
with intellectual and moral. How do Won
suppose all these treasures of knowledge the
child gets win look in shattered casket? And
how much will you give for the wealthicst
cargo when it is put into leally ship? How
can that bright sharp blade of Child'S attain
mcnts be welded without any handle? What
are brains worth without shoulders to carry
them? What is a child with magnificent mind
but an exhausted body? Better that young
man of twenty-onc go forth into the world
without knowing a from Il if he
have health of body and energy to
push his way through the world than
at twenty-one to enter upon active life. his
head stuffed with Socrates and Herodotus,
and Bacon, and LA Place, hut no physical
force to sustain him iii the shock of earthly
conflicts. From this infinite hllndcr of parents
how many have come out in life with a genius
that could have piled Ossa upon Pelion and
mounted upon them to scale the heavens, and
have laid down painting with physical
exhaustion before moe-hill. They
who might have thrilled senatcs and
malSlallcd armies and startled the
world with the shock Of their scientific bat
tories, have passed their lives in picking up
prescriptions for Indigestion. They owned all
the thunderEolts of Jupiter, but could not get
ont OF their rocking chair 10 uSo then.
George Washington in early life was a poor
speller, and spelled hat h-a-double-t and q
rcam of paper he spelled "rhcam, but he
knew enough to spell out the independence of
this country from foreign oppression. The
knowledge Of the schools is Important, but
thcro are other things quito rs important
just rs great is the wrong done when the
mind is cultivated and the heart neglected
The youth of this day are seldom denied any
scholarly attanments. Our schools aud semi
naries are over growing in efficiency. and the
students are conducted through all the realms
of philosophy, and art and languages. and
mathematics. The most hereditary obtuse-
ness gives way before thesonslaught of adloit
Instructors. But there is.a development of in
Unite importance when mathematics and the
dead languages cannot Affect. Tie more
mental power the more capacity for evil unless
coupled with religious restraints
Nou discover what terrible pewor
for evil unSanctitied genius possesses when You
see Scalinger with his scathing denunciatious
RSsaulting tho best mon OF his time and
Blount and Spinoza and Bolingbroko leading
their hosts OF followers into the al-cousumug
dros oi ShepuciSm and infd0lty. Whether
knowledge is mighty good or unmitigated
evil depends entirely upon which course il
takes. The river rolling on hStween round
banks makes all the valley laugh with golden
wheat and rank grass, and catching